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As Meatloaf once sang, two out of three ain’t bad. The disappointment of the Oakland A’s not getting the brooms out on Wednesday to sweep the series over the Seattle Mariners quickly went away. You can’t be unhappy at a series like that. It was two good teams coming together to play three close games […]

I’m not a big fan of two-game series, as the Oakland A’s just had with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s not the lack of a winner, more that the series is over almost as soon as it begun. The difference between three games and two isn’t much, but it does make a difference. Having lost […]

We had seen a few no-hitter attempts early this season, not least a three-day run in the second/third week. Shohei Ohtani was perfect through 6.1 innings on Sunday 8 April (more on that in a moment), the Royals’ Jake Junis then also took a no-no into the seventh inning on the Monday, before the Blue […]

Having won on Opening Day in walk-off fashion, for the Oakland A’s to lose the four-game series 3-1 to the LA Angels was a big disappointment. It’s only four games, nothing is decided and we shouldn’t be quick to draw too many conclusions; however even a ‘Desmond’ 2-2 series split would have felt a lot […]